Associations to the word «Prevenient»

Wiktionary

PREVENIENT, adjective. Of or pertaining to prevenience
PREVENIENT GRACE, noun. (Christianity) (theology) An Arminian doctrine distinctive to Methodism and the broader Wesleyan movement. It holds that man is so fallen that he is utterly incapable of perceiving the need for salvation, but God, in His infinite wisdom, has preveniently extended to humankind sufficient grace that we can, through free will, willingly accept salvation.

Dictionary definition

PREVENIENT, adjective. In anticipation.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne